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REDUNDANCY: Do we really need all that stuff?
We pack and carry all that stuff to our scenes. It's bulky! It's heavy! OMG !!! Do we really need all that stuff? How many times as an instructor have I heard that. What do you think? I want to hear your different veiws. There are difinately different approachs to redundancy in your rope rescue systems if your from the east or west coast, not to mention the no coast (midwest) of the United States. How about from your part of the world. Why do we build redundacy into our systems? And sometimes redundancy to the redundancy?
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Permalink Reply by Jim on
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It will be between 92 and 96 here all week. That is in our crazy method, you know, Ferenhiet. LOL. You know the states have to be diferent than the rest of the world when it comes to science. Any way, sounds like this is the time of year to come there. I did a Farmedic program last year in the mountains and the mornings when we started was 25 degrees F. Also did a HazMat daming and diking in the creeks and decon from level A suits while it was snowing. Yippy.
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Have you received any contact from the Farmedic program yet? Send me an email. Jim
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Permalink Reply by Ben Waller on
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Are you familiar with the Kootenai highline failure tests?
When I did tech rescue for Greenville County, our resident rope rescue guru was invited to one of the PMI-hosted rescue seminars in Tennessee.
He came back with an excellent video of what happens in trackline failures in unbelayed highline systems. We switched to the Kootenai belayed system, essentially on the spot.
We used 12.5 mm double tracklines, a knot-passing pulley on the trolley, and belayed both tag lines, also with 12.5 mm static kernmantle. -
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Yes, I have seen the video and have seen the results of track line failure. I agree with the use of double 1/2' track lines, Kootney's, and with belay lines to each side. NC teachs 5/8" for the track line, but I wish they would push double 1/2" instead, and do away with the bulky 5/8" in departments cache's. I don't see the need to maintain it when we use 1/2" so much more often.
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